As a service to native plant enthusiasts, Plant Checklists of Greater Houston (Houston and surrounding counties) are uploaded or linked here. If your organization has a plant checklist that you would like to post here, please send an email to NPHouston1@gmail.com .
A Checklist of Native and Naturalized Plants of Houston and Vicinity. Including Flowering Plants, Ferns and Fern Allies, Mosses, Liverworts, Lichens. Robert A. Vines and Frederick W. Thurow. Compiled from 1876 – 1963. Copyright by Robert A. Vines, Houston, TX 1964. (sent by Jaime Gonzalez)
A Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Houston Area by Dr. Larry Brown, 2014, Spring Branch Science Center Herbarium (SBSC), 8856 Westview Drive, Houston, Texas 77055. (Note: Currently this Herbarium is housed at Mercer Botanic Gardens, 22306 Aldine Westfield Rd., Humble, Texas 77338-1071. Contact: 713 274 4160,
Email: atiller@hcp4.net
Deer Park Prairie: Jason Singhurst, et. al., J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 12(2): 721 – 733. 2018, THE VASCULAR FLORA AND PLANT COMMUNITIES OF LAWTHER – DEER PARK PRAIRIE, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. p. 727 contains “ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF THE FLORA OF LAWTHER – DEER PARK PRAIRIE PRESERVE”
Other plant lists, including for Nash Prairie, Memorial Park Prairie…at http://prairiepartner.org/plant-lists
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Eastern gamagrass: Article about the eastern gamagrass roots – being able to penetrate a claypan and increase infiltration of water into the soil. https://efotg.sc.egov.usda.gov/references/public/IL/Eastern_Gamagrass_tn_b_74_a.pdf. See page 3: “The roots of eastern gamagrass contain aerenchyma tissue, which is tissue with air passages (Alberts, 1997)….W. Doral Kemper, retired ARS scientist, explains ‘aerenchyma tissue enables roots to survive and punch through the claypan layer when it’s wet, the only time it’s soft enough to be penetrated’ “…The authors suggest that higher water infiltration rates in the gamagrass plots “may be attributed to the thicker and deeper rooting system of eastern gamagrass, which increases macropore flow.” The authors concluded that “eastern gamagrass increased the infiltration of water and improved soil physical and hydraulic properties…” (sent by Lan Shen)